Monday 18th September 2017

PH Photo Gallery: Salon Prive 2017

Steve McQueen's 250 Lusso, Jaguar C-X75 and the new ATS GT were all in attendance - which was your favourite?

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This year's Salon Prive at Blenheim Palace was yet another amazing and vast display of exquisite, exclusive and really quite expensive automobiles. Despite the thunderstorms, hundreds of supercars, hypercars, racing cars and classic cars were in attendance - meaning there was something for absolutely everyone.

For the first time ever this year, Salon Prive was proceeded by an all new show - Blenheim Classic and Supercar, which even featured a display of machinery from the PH community. However, we made sure to make it to the main event as well to bring you some of our highlights from the palace lawn!

Obviously, there were the usual latest and greatest hypercars. Pretty much every poster car you could think of from the last decade was there. Whether it's the Koenigsegg Agera RS, McLaren P1, Pagani Huayra or LaFerrari Aperta; that kind of thing is almost expected at shows like this by now. We were there for the more interesting stuff...

So, what did we find interesting? One of the first cars to stand out was the British hypercar that never was, the Jaguar C-X75! We're told the example shown below is one of only four working cars and was the very stunt car which was used in the James Bond film Spectre. The car was wrapped blue for copyright reasons, however, under the vinyl the orange paint work remains, complete with damage from filming! The story gets more interesting when you ask what's under the hood... The original concept featured a diesel turbine hybrid system, and two of the four cars were built like this. But this car was different; designed by Williams GP, it was based on an LMP1 car, and featured a 5.0 Twin Supercharged V8 which produced over 1,000hp. Adding extra relevance to the story was the revelation that the opening sequence of the chase featuring the C-X75 and DB10 was actually filmed at Blenheim Palace itself.

Other cars of interest were the stunning red McLaren F1, a '51' reg Ferrari F40, Steve McQueen's brown 250 Lusso and the public unveiling of the ATS GT. Did you make it to either of the shows last weekend? What was your highlight? Be sure to share any shots you got from this or previous years with us below!

[myhandle]

I went to both this and the Hampton Court show on consecutive days, both very good. The CX75 also made it to both, moving overnight it would appear.

[lucido grigio]

I went to Hampton Court,wondered how the Jag got to both.

[ThomasHowarth]

myhandle said:

I went to both this and the Hampton Court show on consecutive days, both very good. The CX75 also made it to both, moving overnight it would appear.

I also attended both. The C-X75 at Hampton Court was a non working rolling chassis from before Spectre I believe. The interior was completely different on the Hampton car. It was finished like the production car might have been, where as the Blenheim car was finished like a stunt car, I will provide phone snaps soon!

[ThomasHowarth]

lucido grigio said:

I went to Hampton Court,wondered how the Jag got to both.

I also attended both. The C-X75 at Hampton Court was a non working rolling chassis from before Spectre I believe. The interior was completely different on the Hampton car. It was finished like the production car might have been, where as the Blenheim car was finished like a stunt car, I will provide phone snaps soon!

[ThomasHowarth]

As promised the interior of the C-X75 at Salon Privé (first image) and the interior of the car at Concours Of Elegance as seen at London Classic Car Show (second image).

[Fiesta1.0L]

Wondering how an F40 can be on a 51 plate?

[chasingracecars]

Fiesta1.0L said:

Wondering how an F40 can be on a 51 plate?

This came up in another thread I think it was stored and registered later.

[Cold]

I do enjoy a tent chandelier.

[DukeDickson]

Easiest job in the world - Rock up at 9 to take a photo of 288GTO looking good.

Go home at 9:01 having done a hard day's graft.

[OGR4M]

Cold said:

I do enjoy a tent chandelier.

added to my list of Le Mans essentials.

[big_rob_sydney]

DukeDickson said:

Easiest job in the world - Rock up at 9 to take a photo of 288GTO looking good.

Go home at 9:01 having done a hard day's graft.

It might be just me, but I really, really like the older Fezzas. They look so small compared to modern cars, too, which I love.

I just wish more manufacturers would come out and build them in the same vein (eg thinking of you, Lotus); how great would that be?

[theholygrail]

big_rob_sydney said:

It might be just me, but I really, really like the older Fezzas. They look so small compared to modern cars, too, which I love.

I just wish more manufacturers would come out and build them in the same vein (eg thinking of you, Lotus); how great would that be?

I couldn't agree more Steve McQueen's Lusso for example. Knocks the socks off anything modern to my eyes. Am not a fan of all these hemorrhoid diffusers!

[Tenebrae]

ThomasHowarth said:

As promised the interior of the C-X75 at Salon Privé (first image) and the interior of the car at Concours Of Elegance as seen at London Classic Car Show (second image).

Nice! Looks like the stunt car uses custom steel tube 'movie' chassis in lieu of the carbon one on the other prototype. A typical Hollywood (or at least Pinewood) exercise of making up some scaffolding with shiny panels on the outside going on then, of course completely understandable for the rigours of filming. (I still want whichever one.)

[JD2329]

I agree re the older Ferraris - the BB is pretty much perfect to my eyes.

[FWDRacer]

Haven't modern supercars become a cluttered mess design wise?

... that Miura

[350Matt]

the CX75 was originally going to have turbine generators
but these never happened

Cosworth designed, built and made the prototype engines which were 500Bhp 1.6 ltr turbo & supercharged in line 4's to supplement 2 x 200 bhp electric motors

this was going to be the production solution and 5 off prototypes were made like this, one of them got turned into the movie car with the Jag V8 instead and no electric motors
Jag then lost their bottle and never committed to production of the planned 175 cars

[Supersaloons]

FWDRacer said:

Haven't modern supercars become a cluttered mess design wise?

... that Miura

Absolutely right. Is that white car with hemorrhoids for real? Never saw it before but must be the poorest 'design' of the 21st century.

I took a look at older designs of Bertone, Italdesign etc and if you compare the proto's of the 70's (Bravo for example) with the now so called hypercars then design took a wrong turn somewhere.... How many holes and diffuser BS can a car have?